The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Tuesday he opposes providing supplemental funding to the Pentagon for payments toward industry’s pandemic-related claims, which the department estimates will be in the “low double digits of billions of dollars.” Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) told reporters the Pentagon should be able to cover the reimbursements with the emergency funding from the previous CARES ACT coronavirus relief package, which he said the department has yet to allocate half of the $10 billion…
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